Thane: Shiv Sena corporator and former Thane mayor Meenakshi Shinde resigned as Thane district chief of the party’s women’s wing on Thursday, triggering a fresh political flashpoint over. A month after the murder of Shiv Sena (UBT) worker Pradeep Purnekar in Thane, Meenakshi Shinde, a former Thane mayor and a close aide of Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, resigned as the.